775

This article is about the year 775. For the number, see 775 (number). For other uses, see 775 (disambiguation).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	7th century – 8th century – 9th century
Decades:	740s  750s  760s  – 770s –  780s  790s  800s
Years:	772 773 774 – 775 – 776 777 778

775 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

775 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	775 DCCLXXV
Ab urbe condita	1528
Armenian calendar	224 ԹՎ ՄԻԴ
Assyrian calendar	5525
Bahá'í calendar	-1069–-1068
Bengali calendar	182
Berber calendar	1725
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1319
Burmese calendar	137
Byzantine calendar	6283–6284
Chinese calendar	甲寅年十一月廿五日 (3411/3471-11-25) — to — 乙卯年十二月初五日 (3412/3472-12-5)
Coptic calendar	491–492
Ethiopian calendar	767–768
Hebrew calendar	4535–4536
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	831–832
- Shaka Samvat	697–698
- Kali Yuga	3876–3877
Holocene calendar	10775
Iranian calendar	153–154
Islamic calendar	158–159
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3108
Minguo calendar	1137 before ROC 民前1137年
Thai solar calendar	1318

Year 775 (DCCLXXV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 775 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

By place

Africa

• Andalusian merchants set up an emporium on the Maghribi coast at Ténès. It is an early evidence of the revival of the maritime trade in the Western Mediterranean after the chaos of the 8th century.

Asia

• Estimation: Baghdad, capital of the Abbasid Empire, becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Chang'an, capital of China.
• In East Central Chang'an, a Uyghur Turk stabs a man to death in broad daylight in the East Market before being arrested in the marketplace shortly after. However, his Uyghur chieftain named Chixin (赤心) or Red Heart breaks into the county prison and frees the murderous culprit, wounding several Chinese wardens in the process.^{[citation needed]}
• Dharampala begins his reign of Bengal.
• Al-Mahdi becomes the third Abbasid Caliph.

Byzantine Empire

• Leo IV succeeds Constantine V as Byzantine Emperor.

Europe

• Alpin II succeeds Ciniod I as king of the Picts.
• Charlemagne begins his campaign into Westphalia.
• The German city of Gießen is formed.

Births

• Ebbo (d. 851)
• Hilduin (d. 840)
• Leo V (d. 820)
• Thandi Varman (d. 825)
• Vatsaraja (d. 805)

Deaths

• Al-Mansur, second Abbasid caliph (b. 712)
• Ciniod I of the Picts
• September 14 – Constantine V, Byzantine Emperor